EDIT for history: [The original comment was by edw##, regarding the strength of his ancestor's sperm. It wasn't a bad post, I just felt it was inaccurate/confusing.]
Though poetic, that's not at all how you should look at it.
Those sperm carry the same DNA. That DNA is the pattern your proteins are crafted with. That pattern (in conjunction with the environment you live in) is what determines how "sturdy" you are. You are not that sperm.
Think of your DNA as the bash program, and the ENV variables as a sort of control flow (like in many programs). The end result of the computation is you.
The "strength" of your father's (and forefathers') sperm is important, sure, but from an evolutionary perspective. Those 100,000,000 sperm were, for all intents and purposes, the same.
23andme isn't about telling you what you already know–though that's certainly an interesting confirmation–it's about telling you what you don't know. Or at least giving you an idea about it, and the raw data that largely determines how you turned out (given your env vars).
Though poetic, that's not at all how you should look at it.
Those sperm carry the same DNA. That DNA is the pattern your proteins are crafted with. That pattern (in conjunction with the environment you live in) is what determines how "sturdy" you are. You are not that sperm.
Think of your DNA as the bash program, and the ENV variables as a sort of control flow (like in many programs). The end result of the computation is you.
The "strength" of your father's (and forefathers') sperm is important, sure, but from an evolutionary perspective. Those 100,000,000 sperm were, for all intents and purposes, the same.
23andme isn't about telling you what you already know–though that's certainly an interesting confirmation–it's about telling you what you don't know. Or at least giving you an idea about it, and the raw data that largely determines how you turned out (given your env vars).